Why Democrats Don't Get Sanders' Endgame (and Why It Will Hurt Them in the End)

This is an excellent article highlighting a larger picture, one which is urgently needed to be known by all of us. Another world is possible. And it is up to us and will occur as more and more Americans shed our indoctrination and the plethora of ways in which we have been propagandized, polarized, and convinced to act against our own best interests and support the oligarchy. Now there is revolution/evolution emerging. We can and we are awakening. We are the ones we have been waiting for. Bless us all ~ Molly

Bernie Sanders holds a campaign rally at Island Park in Springfield, Oregon on Thursday. (Photo: Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard)

 by John Atcheson

Published on

Friday, July 01, 2016

by

Common Dreams

Excerpted from this article: 

Why a Values-Based Party is Good Politics, Too.

What most pundits miss is that the Democratic Party has been hemorrhaging people  since 1960, when 50% of voters called themselves Democrats, and only about 20% identified as Independents. For the most part, Republicans have bounced around in the mid to high twenties, occasionally hitting the low 30’s.

Today, only 29%  of potential voters identify as Democrats, 42% call themselves Independents, and 26% are Republicans.

Where did all those people go?  As the Democratic Party abandoned the New Deal policies that contributed to the longest sustained and most equitably shared prosperity in our nation’s history, the people abandoned the Party, as their share of the national pie plummeted and the plutocrat’s share skyrocketed.

Hillary Clinton is the second most disliked candidate and the least trusted candidate to run for the Presidency in the history of polling. That won’t inspire a big turnout, and Democrats desperately need a big turnout. In the disastrous mid-term election of 2014 in which Republicans trounced Democrats, the US had the lowest voter turnout in 75 years.

What the average person has figured out, is that neither Party represents them, and that we live in an Oligarchy.  So they’ve stopped playing. This has been bad for Democrats, since the passionately ignorant show up to vote in disproportionate numbers.

Bottom line:  Sanders’ values-based appeal to voters is in the best long-term interests of the Party, but the Party is controlled by vested interests who won’t relinquish their chokehold on it. And as for Hillary Clinton, “the progressive who gets things done?” Well, she and her surrogates are busy backtracking on her very briefly held progressive positions on trade, climate, and universal healthcare (among others) as noted by Bill McKibben.

We are fortunate to have a candidate as crazed as Trump.  It is likely that even a weak candidate like Hillary will defeat him. 

But in the long-term, the Democratic Party and the people will suffer by nominating and electing another candidate who is indebted to – indeed, an integral part of – the Oligarchy. 

And that, my clueless friends in the establishment media and the punditocracy, is why Sanders won’t quit.  And why he shouldn’t.  

Please go here for the full article: http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/07/01/why-democrats-dont-get-sanders-endgame-and-why-it-will-hurt-them-end